Berlin

It was with 2012’s eponymous debut album that Berlin’s Kadavar cast a spell on all fans of solid riff-driven yet doom-like 70’s hard rock à la Black Sabbath / Pentagram. Marrying this with the spacey psychedelic approach of early Hawkwind and mixing in their own distinct warm vintage charm the trio enjoyed astoundingly high sales and support shows for bands such as Sleep, Saint Vitus and Electric Wizard.

Now, the success the trio had with 2013’s ‘Abra Kadavar’ is set to continue with new album ‘Berlin’. The album’s title is homage to the hometown of this extravagant and magical band: “When we all moved to Berlin independently we wanted to do something new. We’re all different and we have different origins but we made it to create something together. I think that the sense of life of Berlin has influenced us a lot. So it’s a perfectly fitting album title,” says gigantic drummer Tiger.

Completely free and somehow logical in the Kadavar world, the band chose to include a cover song as a bonus track on ‘Berlin’, the already very psychedelic track ‘Reich der Träume’, originally performed by The Velvet Underground singer Nico. “… we wanted a German song. Not only because of the album title, we are adults now, so we are allowed to do something like that. This time, our album is more influenced by the 60s, so the track fits perfectly. It has this basic psychedelic mono melody and Nico doesn’t use that many words.” – Tiger.